All Features articles – Page 143
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FeaturesDot to dot results: 4 December 2009
Last week’s winner was Jyh Lee of Stephenson Bell Architects in Manchester, who identified Dominique Perrault’s Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris
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FeaturesDot to dot - 11 December 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 16 for a chance to win a copy of The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago
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FeaturesCurl La Tourelle and sketching
Inspired by the tragic death of a colleague, Curl La Tourelle has introduced sketching challenges into their monthly design exchanges.
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 27
The winner of last week’s competition was Tony Garland of Perth, who identified Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin building in Buffalo, New York
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 04 December 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 9 for a chance to win a copy of Cheltenham, by Stephen Morris
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FeaturesBest’s bachelor pad was an own goal
The footballer only lived in Frazer Crane’s luxury house for three years
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FeaturesDot to Dot: 27 November 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday December 2 for a chance to win a copy of 1000 Interior Details for the Home and Where to Find Them, by Ian and Geraldine Rudge
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FeaturesDot to dot results: November 20 2009
Last week’s winner was Claire Bakewell of Capita Symonds Structures in Cheshire, who identified Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre in Norwich
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FeaturesSimon Jenkins:putting life in great buildings
Simon Jenkins, as chairman of the National Trust, wants visitors to its buildings to see life as it was when the houses were in use
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FeaturesQ&A with 6a Architects on domestic scale refurbishments
Directors of 6a Architects, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson, explain how their sensitive approach to domestic-scale refurbishments has become more aggressive at the much larger Offley works
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FeaturesA roundup of the latest refurbishment projects
Pollard Thomas Edwards’ powder roomPollard Thomas Edwards has restored a set of three early 20th century industrial buildings on the site of the old gunpowder works at Waltham Abbey Mills. The project, which completed in July this year, creates office space for client and contractor Hill Partnerships. Entrance vestibule soffit ...
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FeaturesPreservation not reconstruction
Julian Harrap’s traditional restoration of a listed timber-framed building on St Aldates, Oxford, is in stark contrast to the contemporary expression of Jamie Fobert’s proposed dwellings to the rear — and yet to both architects it represents a continuation of approach
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FeaturesHelp with the stairs
Making change easy is the claim of the recently released Vectorworks 2010 cad software. Jonathan Reeves finds out whether it delivers
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FeaturesWhy has the RIBA ditched its fee scale graphs?
Why has the RIBA abandoned fee scale graphs in the depths of a recession when the profession needs them the most?
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FeaturesWhat are the odds of defeating spam?
Spam email is a significant problem for many architects’ practices, accounting for more than 50% of incoming email
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FeaturesInskip & Jenkins puts its seal on Castle Drogo
Completed in 1930 as the last castle in England, Castle Drogo was sadly always pregnable to the Dartmoor rain. Now Inskip & Jenkins’ restoration work is turning Lutyens’ fantastical creation into a weatherproof fortress for the first time
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RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on refurbishment
Stuart Finnie, director of NorthSeven Architects reviews three books on refurbishment covering everything from planning through to transformation